[syslog-ng] HUP or reload

[Peter Kokai (pkokai)]

Hello,

Using either version is fine. But I think actually you should prefer syslog-ng-ctl reload, specially in case of scripting as the later waits for reload to happen and the command return code indicates if reload was success or failure. That is a nice addition.

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Kokan

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Are there certain circumstances where I should prefer doing a HUP on the syslog-ng process instead of syslog-ng-ctl reload?   My use case specifically is for postrotate but I'm also asking generally.

Thanks,
Mark


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